A 31-year-old man was arrested after a gunshot was fired through a wall, police said.

Anne Arundel County police officers were called to a home at 8050 Montague Court in Glen Burnie for a report of shots fired on Thursday.

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Police learned the shots came from within 8048 Montague Court and that's where they found a man on the porch and confronted him about the incident.

Police learned the resident of 8048 Montague was in his home when he discharged a firearm, and the round from that weapon penetrated a common wall and passed into a neighbor’s home on Montague Court, coming to rest in an interior wall.

Six people, including three young children, were inside of the home, but none of the occupants of the neighbor’s home on Montague Court were injured in this incident.

Police said the man tried to convince officers that the errant round was an accidental discharge from an air rifle, but police said they found a loaded handgun with a fresh spent round.

The man, identified as Matthew Joseph Klein, was taken into custody.

After obtaining permission to search the home, two high-powered rifles, two air rifles, a Tec9 assault pistol, and 14 handguns and over 1,000 rounds of ammunition were seized, police said.